Saturday, November 30, 2013

Thanksgiving Week Happenings!

Thanksgiving Week Happenings!

Hola! This past week has been full of its up and downs.
So last Wednesday, they started putting up Christmas decorations and
playing Christmas music already! Also on that Wednesday, we got the new
group of North Americans and Latinos. There were only 6 new North
Americans, and only one sister. Her name is Sister J., and she became my
new companion. She´s from Virginia, and did one semester at BYU, and
she´s really nice. And this new group of Latinos is so different from the
last one. The last group was really big and loud and crazy, and this
group is a lot more subdued, but they are really great. So from Thursday to
Saturday, not a lot happened, just a lot of classes and studying. Then on
Sunday was really good! The spirit is so strong in the MTC, but especially on
Sundays. We usually watch a few devotionals, and they are always so good
and uplifting.

On Tuesday we watched a devotional about temples, and it
made me realize how lucky we are to have temples to close by. They are a
wonderful blessing. We went to the Bogotá temple on Wednesday, and it was
really nice. The temple itself is really big and beautiful. I wish
I could’ve taken a picture of it, but they don’t let us bring our cameras.
Anyway, and that time I didn´t use headphones, so I listened to the whole
thing in Spanish, and I was able to understand about 90% of it. I think
my Spanish is improving a lot. I still have a lot to go, but it’s coming
along. Our investigator, Katy (our teacher) has been progressing in our lessons,
and in our last one we committed her to baptism, and it was amazing to feel the
spirit as we testified to her, and to see the change in her over the week (even
though it wasn’t real, it felt real). She started out as a hippie, and not
believing in God, but now she knows she is a daughter of God, and knows the
things we are teaching her are true. Anyway, so that went really well.

So yesterday was thanksgiving! In the morning we did
service, by cleaning the whole MTC. Then they had a really nice meal for us.
Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, a marshmallow fruit salad thing,
and a fruit pie like dessert, and chocolate cake. It was all super yummy.

Besides that, this week has been really fun. Since
it´s been a lot of class, and of course getting up early and everything, I’ve
been really tired, and we all know what happens when I get really tired... I
cannot stop laughing! Also, for a couple of nights, my roommates and I
(Sister B., Sister, M, and sister J) have been telling stories and staying up laughing
into the night, and it’s been so fun. These girls are hilarious, and I
love them. Especially Sister B. She is the funniest person I’ve
ever met. And she and Sister M. are teaching me how to be more sassy.
The boys have nicknamed us the sass pack, ha-ha.

Anyway, also yesterday we had an area Seventy come and give
us a devotional, and that was really good. He talked about how we are
doing the work of salvation, and how we have a power within us, the power of
the spirit, and we have to remember how amazing we are and what we are doing.

So more cool things coming up. On Tuesday we will get
to go on a field trip! I’m not sure where we will be going, but I am excited to
get out! Oh and tomorrow we will go proselytizing again, so I’m excited for
that too! Then I think on Wednesday we will be getting Latina companions!
Ah!